Is consulting an easy job?

The question can be
addressed from different perspective and, not to mention, the answers will
change when the perspective is changed. A lot of it will depend on what you
are, whether you are consultant yourself or client or neither.

The best way to decide
whether it’s easy or not your cup of tea is to find out what exactly consulting
job will include.

Here, in short, we have
tried to show lifestyle of business consultants. No we do not mean
which car a consultant uses but how the consultant deals with job and maintains
work life balance and what exactly is the work that is done by the consultants?

Travelling- adventurous
or may be not!

Yes as a consultant you
will get a lot of chance to travel. Yes it is fun as you get to go many places
but these trips are not holidays and you will be working throughout your trip.
If the trip is during the weekend then it is highly likely that you will not
get your weekend to enjoy as you do always. Possibility is that you would be
flipping report file and researching on laptop.

Travelling means you are
leaving your family behind almost every week or month. If you happen to be
travelling once in two or three months then, I can say, it is going be
thrilling for you. So you see it all depends on the pattern of working you have
developed and how large or wide is your client base.

There could be less
travelling or more travelling. Anyway you will have to make sure that asbusiness consultantsyou will be visiting clients.

Flexibility is the key

The job requires you to
be flexible, not just physically but mentally too. During your working week it
is not possible to work according to your own time, you free time or break is
what the clients decide. Of course you are no slave. But when you are hired you
have to keep in mind a great deal of flexibility. There are many things to be
worked up on when you are dealing with clients. Sometimes the clients are not
even sorted with their question and queries. It is you who has to figure out
the issue they are stuck with. It is a lot of work and a dormant thinker is not
fit for this job.

Can you build client
relationship?

An important part of the
job description is that you will be requiring building a strong client
relationship that has to grow over time. The services provided is not enough.
What makes you a good consultant is client follow-up. Cultivating the relations
is going to get you more clients and this business is hugely dependent on
referrals.

How different are you?

If you are looking to set
yourself up as a consultant then this is the most important thing in your sale.
So, what is your USP? How different are you from your competitors. You cannot
start performing cabaret for the clients that come to you. It has to be
something fitting within the corpus of business consulting. Research well and
set your identity apart from others. Detect the difference in sameness.

So these are some of the
life pattern that a consultant has. It is you who has to decide whether or not
you can be good consultants. Let me tell you, deciding to be a consultant is
not a merry decision. It requires rigorous pursuing of bachelors and masters
degree in business administration, industry experience, insight, researching
capability and a confident speaker.